RATHENAU MURDER.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 12 October 1922, Page 8

RATHENAU MURDER.

BEMAEKABLE EVIDENCE AT THE

TEIAL

ACADEMY OF YOUTHEULMIJE-

DEEEES,

BT CABIiE-i-PRESS ASSOCIA fiON- -COPYRIGHT (Received Oct. 12, 10.20 a.m.) BERLIN, Oct.1 11. Remarkable evidence was given -at tl^e Rathenau murder trial. It disclosed the existence• ofran academy, attended mainly by ■ boys , between, thirteen and sixteen years of age with the avowed object of cultivating the spirit of Imperialism and Prussianism as a counterblast to the Boy Scout , patrols. One of the products of the y academy was a schoolboy named Stubenrailck, who designed the first plan of Dr Rathenau's murder, which was not followed. He coolly informed the Court he had judged that Dr Rathe'nau ■was a danger to the country in consequence of the Rapallo Treaty, and arranged with Guenther, one of the accused, to murder Dr Rathenau at a -supper party given by a prominent industrialist, but as Guenther failed to kqep, his promise to provide him with " a revolver he said that their friendship had cooled. Stubenrauek's evidence was a mass of political trivialities. : It is stated that he was, allowed: to remain. at ihis public school: after the proceedings against him had been decided in his favour i—Times. > -